Android Patent Infringement: Licensing is the Solution — Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — As you may have seen, Microsoft today filed legal actions against Barnes & Noble, Inc., Foxconn International Holdings Ltd., and Inventec Corporation in both the U.S. International …

Sprint integrates Google Voice — Over time, we've worked to bring an integrated Google Voice experience to your mobile device by building mobile apps, introducing Google Voice Lite, and most recently Number Porting. But we felt that ultimately, the most simple solution would be to partner …

The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011 — If you look back at the history of Twitter, our rate of growth has largely outpaced the capacity of our hardware, software, and the company itself. Indeed, in our first five years, Twitter's biggest challenge was coping with our unprecedented growth and sightings of the infamous Fail Whale.

What AT&T Owes T-Mobile if Deal Doesn't Go Through — If regulators squelch AT&T's $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile, the company will have more than just its frustrations to deal with. — As part of the deal, AT&T has agreed to pay T-Mobile $3 billion and promised valuable spectrum …

Apple iOS 4.3.1 coming within one to two weeks? — We've just been given some info on Apple's next iOS release, 4.3.1, and from what we have been told, it will contain minor bug fixes. Here are the changes from iOS 4.3: — Baseband updates for the 3GS and iPad (original)

The Technology Behind Making Mobile Payments a Reality — It's only a matter of time before your mobile phone swallows up yet another piece of technology: your credit card. — In this not-too-distant future, rather than pay for gas or dinner with a piece of plastic that you slide through a machine …

Google Is No. 1 on List Of Desired Employers — One in four young professionals wants to work at Google Inc., according to a survey by Universum, a consulting firm that helps companies improve their attractiveness to prospective employees. — Nearly 25% of survey respondents picked Google …

HTTPS is more secure, so why isn't the Web using it? — You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to any service that uses a plain HTTP connection that's essentially what you're doing.

Nintendo 3DS review — See that greenish blue thing up there? That might look like this greenish blue thing over here that we reviewed a few weeks back, but actually they're not the same. No, sir. This thing up there is the genuine, guaranteed, red-blooded American version …

Berlin court rules Google Street View is legal in Germany — A Berlin court has ruled that Google Street View is, in fact, legal in Germany. — Last Tuesday, the Berlin State Supreme Court (Kammergericht) announced its decision in a court case from late last year, in which a woman had sued Google …